SPIDER MITES DURING 12/12 hot shot no pest strip 19 days into flowering
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phillipchristian
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I doubt it will work. Especially this late into flowering. Those bitches have been on your plants for a while. If you don't have full on buds yet then go get som Neem Oil asap. Follow the directions on the bottle. You probably can still spray without any effect on your buds. Hurry though. And drench that plant: stalk, stems, branches, under all the leaves, everywhere.
In my opinion, after about a year of experience with curing multiple gardens of spider mites I would venture to say that Mighty Wash is better for the actual curing of spider mites, where as neem oil does a great job at preventing them at a much more affordable rate for multiple uses during a cycle.
Not dogging Neem oil because I do love the stuff, and it's smell...but ever since Mighty Wash came out I have been in love with it's ability to just KILL mites on contact. Mighty wash is just electrically charged water (sorry if that lacks eloquence) but kills spider mites and their eggs instantly. It's amazing. It is 100% safe to use up until the day of harvest. I have used Mighty wash a number of times in various gardens with 100% success. Just follow up your first application in a week with a second application.
I've used Mighty wash into day 40 of flowering with huge resinous buds and came out with zero ill effects. Just be careful if your buds are already top heavy and not tied up you will definitely have arms laying all over the place. You will want to shake your plants off when you're done applying mighty wash to get rid of any excess water standing on leaves/buds.
I use Neem oil every other week for preventative measure of pests and use Mighty wash once before flower and once in the middle of flower to ensure zero mites. It costs about $125 for a 5 gallon jug of mighty wash and that lasts one cycle. Relatively cheap for the number of plants it covers and if you've ever had a mite infestation you know that you would have happily paid $100 or $200 or even $500 to have not had mites. They can easily consume and stunt that much in development of your product!
Not dogging Neem oil because I do love the stuff, and it's smell...but ever since Mighty Wash came out I have been in love with it's ability to just KILL mites on contact. Mighty wash is just electrically charged water (sorry if that lacks eloquence) but kills spider mites and their eggs instantly. It's amazing. It is 100% safe to use up until the day of harvest. I have used Mighty wash a number of times in various gardens with 100% success. Just follow up your first application in a week with a second application.
I've used Mighty wash into day 40 of flowering with huge resinous buds and came out with zero ill effects. Just be careful if your buds are already top heavy and not tied up you will definitely have arms laying all over the place. You will want to shake your plants off when you're done applying mighty wash to get rid of any excess water standing on leaves/buds.
I use Neem oil every other week for preventative measure of pests and use Mighty wash once before flower and once in the middle of flower to ensure zero mites. It costs about $125 for a 5 gallon jug of mighty wash and that lasts one cycle. Relatively cheap for the number of plants it covers and if you've ever had a mite infestation you know that you would have happily paid $100 or $200 or even $500 to have not had mites. They can easily consume and stunt that much in development of your product!
UncleBuck
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i keep one of those "hot shot no pest" thingies around and i'm not sure if it works or not, but mite problems always seem to worsen when it gets past its effective date of 2-3 months. lots of warning on those things, but i use them in one of my veg layers near flowering plants and i'm not dead yet and no effect on the buds that i can tell.
einstein oil is a great preventive measure that also keeps the leaves shiny and green and protects against other shittiness. unlike dubdeuce, my wife hates the smell (i have no sense of smell). you can use that fairly late into flowering (i have used it into week 5 once) and be just fine.
i might have to check out this mighty wash. electrically charged water? that intrigues me.
einstein oil is a great preventive measure that also keeps the leaves shiny and green and protects against other shittiness. unlike dubdeuce, my wife hates the smell (i have no sense of smell). you can use that fairly late into flowering (i have used it into week 5 once) and be just fine.
i might have to check out this mighty wash. electrically charged water? that intrigues me.
scroglodyte
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Mighty Wash is a new revolutionary way to solve your spider mite problem in all stages of development from eggs to adults. Mighty Wash is a ready-to-use proprietary formula. It may be used throughout the grow and flower cycle up to and including the day of harvest. Mighty Wash is truly "The cleanest solution to your spider mite problem."
Indeed! I was skeptical at first also after first reading/hearing about it. The manufacturer does tell you straight up that it's more or less just water though. Perhaps they call it "frequency imprinted water". I don't remember the exact lingo they used. Besides the lack of technical jargon, my claims are from personal experience and not regurgitated information from videos, or reading forums. This is true and tried usage of the product over the course of a year on 5 different gardens with over 30 different strains. The stuff WORKS. We use an AmScope 2000x to microscope and without a doubt the colonies are decimated instantly. The best part is that its 100% natural and safe up until day of harvest, literally!
lol, shit sounds like an advert.
scroglodyte
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it is........i copied it. i'm picking some up today. flippin' arachnid, leaf-sucking, web-weaving little mofo's.
1337hacker
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Neem oil will completely biodegrade in 2 weeks so you are safe to spray and drench your plants until two weeks before harvest with it.
Go in during lights off (at least 4 hours before they come on) and nail them with a mixture of neem / dish soap / water (or aloe) to make the neem stick to the plant. You will want to coat both top and bottom of the leaf. Apply liberally, but mix at the rate the product you use says (Dynagro, Einsteins are both awesome using seed extract from neem) Use the mixture also to drench the soil/medium you are growing in to give your plant some extra protection after you nail it with the foliar. Repeat 5-7 days later to wipe out the reproductive capability of any remaining spider mites.
You will need to apply neem every 10-14 days if you want to use it as a preventative measure , using it as a drench works great as a preventative as well.
I have never ventured outside of the uses of neem, because I only garden organically,and it has worked well for me. Lady Bugs never hurt either on the organic side for any sort of pest prevention.
Good luck with your fight against the BORG
Go in during lights off (at least 4 hours before they come on) and nail them with a mixture of neem / dish soap / water (or aloe) to make the neem stick to the plant. You will want to coat both top and bottom of the leaf. Apply liberally, but mix at the rate the product you use says (Dynagro, Einsteins are both awesome using seed extract from neem) Use the mixture also to drench the soil/medium you are growing in to give your plant some extra protection after you nail it with the foliar. Repeat 5-7 days later to wipe out the reproductive capability of any remaining spider mites.
You will need to apply neem every 10-14 days if you want to use it as a preventative measure , using it as a drench works great as a preventative as well.
I have never ventured outside of the uses of neem, because I only garden organically,and it has worked well for me. Lady Bugs never hurt either on the organic side for any sort of pest prevention.
Good luck with your fight against the BORG
UncleBuck
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Neem oil will completely biodegrade in 2 weeks so you are safe to spray and drench your plants until two weeks before harvest with it.
Go in during lights off (at least 4 hours before they come on) and nail them with a mixture of neem / dish soap / water (or aloe) to make the neem stick to the plant. You will want to coat both top and bottom of the leaf. Apply liberally, but mix at the rate the product you use says (Dynagro, Einsteins are both awesome using seed extract from neem) Use the mixture also to drench the soil/medium you are growing in to give your plant some extra protection after you nail it with the foliar. Repeat 5-7 days later to wipe out the reproductive capability of any remaining spider mites.
You will need to apply neem every 10-14 days if you want to use it as a preventative measure , using it as a drench works great as a preventative as well.
I have never ventured outside of the uses of neem, because I only garden organically,and it has worked well for me. Lady Bugs never hurt either on the organic side for any sort of pest prevention.
Good luck with your fight against the BORG
the borg sucks, and i wanted to highlight two important things you said.
first of all, don't neem under your lights. i always leave as much time as possible for the plants to dry after neeming before putting them under the lights again. 4 hours seems like a safe enough quote, although longer is not a bad thing. just make sure they are dry, a fan helps.
second, neem does not kill the BORG it only keeps them from reproducing. so whatever eggs already exist will hatch, and when they do you need to neem them again. if i have an outbreak, i neem and then neem again 3 days later, then 5 days after that, and then 7 days after that.
if you employ preventive care and neem at certain milestones, like after they get done cloning and root out, and halfway through veg, and at the start of flowering, you will do yourself a favor in the end.
best of luck once again.
MISSPHOEBE
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I took my plants and put them in the bathtub and then showered them down and washed each leaf..... seemed to work..........
scroglodyte
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did you wear a swim-suit?
scroglodyte
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slowly......washed each leaf.......and then.......
probo24
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I used to be on a mite control program with all the various oils and sprays.
All that spraying kept me busy and focused on my plant pest probems,
instead of focused on the plants themselves.
Ask around your local grow shops, they'll be more than happy to help you set up
a control program, as well as reap the benefits of taking your money month after month in that endless cycle of "controlling" your mite problem.
It's already been said, although believe me i'm as big a skeptic as there is but Mighty Wash is an impressive product that does exactly what it claims, and that is to kill on contact mites at every single stage of their development.
Once they had a smaller size bottle of Mighty Wash I decided to try it. This was almost a year ago. My mite infestation was a three year battle, getting so bad at times that plants left unattended for three days would have cocoon covered buds. The outsides of some pots would be so mite covered, the pots themselves seemed to be living things.
One application using about half of the 15.99 bottle of MW and I haven't had to stink my plants up with a single oil, dip, dunk, tea, or any other mite control product since.
Although I do use No pest strips as a preventative measure, and i've stopped bringing unknown cuttings into my grow rooms.
I have seen not one mite, nor any signs of mite damage on a plant in almost a year.
I can't say i won't get mites again, I can say there is only one spray i'll use if I do get unlucky again and thats Might Wash.
All that spraying kept me busy and focused on my plant pest probems,
instead of focused on the plants themselves.
Ask around your local grow shops, they'll be more than happy to help you set up
a control program, as well as reap the benefits of taking your money month after month in that endless cycle of "controlling" your mite problem.
It's already been said, although believe me i'm as big a skeptic as there is but Mighty Wash is an impressive product that does exactly what it claims, and that is to kill on contact mites at every single stage of their development.
Once they had a smaller size bottle of Mighty Wash I decided to try it. This was almost a year ago. My mite infestation was a three year battle, getting so bad at times that plants left unattended for three days would have cocoon covered buds. The outsides of some pots would be so mite covered, the pots themselves seemed to be living things.
One application using about half of the 15.99 bottle of MW and I haven't had to stink my plants up with a single oil, dip, dunk, tea, or any other mite control product since.
Although I do use No pest strips as a preventative measure, and i've stopped bringing unknown cuttings into my grow rooms.
I have seen not one mite, nor any signs of mite damage on a plant in almost a year.
I can't say i won't get mites again, I can say there is only one spray i'll use if I do get unlucky again and thats Might Wash.
You can very much use this as a spray on treatment. Just remember it's the undersides of the leaves you are trying to get. You can just spray the stuff on top like it's raining on them. You will need to intimately involved in the process and handle each plant. I usually bring each plant near my drain, and just go to town.
We have used it only as a foliar treatment with 100% success. Don't get me wrong, we are handling the plants to ensure they are COVERED by Mighty Wash by the time we are done. I cup my hand behind the plant as I completely soak the plant with a commercial yard sprayer. In the end, there was no difference between dunking or completely covering the plant with spraying as every square inch got covered. If the plants were smaller, not budding, and not tied up with stakes then dunking may have been an option. Once you reach the later days of flowering, dunking it just not logical to do.
I took my plants and put them in the bathtub and then showered them down and washed each leaf..... seemed to work..........
This will without a doubt remove colonies, disrupt growth, and clean up the plants, but without killing the source, they will inevitably be back. There's no amount of water you can put on the plant that will kill the mites....UNLESS it's Mighty Wash's frequency imprinted water!
unohu69
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yeah, when I spray with neem, i completely soak em down, they look like shit for a couple hrs, but kicks the shit outta the mites. after a week of treatment I see almost no signs. But I always expect em back now. i have heard really good stuff about the MightyWash and have been looking forward to trying it out.
I really think using a silicon additive really helps to, cant prove it but mites dont seem to get so out of hand as long as i use it.
I really think using a silicon additive really helps to, cant prove it but mites dont seem to get so out of hand as long as i use it.